Comcast was the top 2013 supplier of Telecom services

Persimmon Telecommunications, a proud Telarus partner, is thrilled to announce that, Comcast Business was the top Telarus supplier of 2013. Of the 40 plus providers with direct contracts (indirectly we represent hundreds of suppliers) the top five by 2013 sales revenue were:

• 1. Comcast Business
• 2. Windstream
• 3. ACC Business
• 4. Time Warner Cable
• 5. Tw Telecom

Partner's Choice awards were presented as follows:

• Top New Supplier of 2013: Momentum
• Best Overall: Time Warner Cable
• Most Improved: Comcast Business

The above were presented last week at the Partner Summit in Deer Valley, Utah. See the previous post in this blog for a glimpse at the somewhat unusual Deer Valley weather during mid-June 2014.

Summer this week? Telecommunications Summit

When we arrived at the Telarus Telecom Summit, we were greeted by this view out our window:

which resulted in this view the following morning

In spite of this wintry welcome to Park City, Utah, a few days before summer, we had a very productive week with lots of updates presented by carriers on their latest bandwidth, voice, network, data center, and cloud solutions. Additionally, CenturyLink announced that we are now a Premier Alliance Partner.

Complimentary Admission to Cloud Expo New York - Save $2200

For a limited time, Persimmon Telecommunications is offering you a complimentary Golden Pass for the entire Cloud Expo NY three day event. The pass gives full access to all 150+ sessions across 9 tracks, including all Keynotes, General Sessions, Discussion Panels, Technical Breakout Sessions, and the Expo Floor... everything that a fully paid $2,200 Gold Pass brings, in fact, with the exception of Luncheon and the collectible conference bag

To obtain a complimentary Golden Pass, contact Persimmon Telecommunications.

Cloud Services Presentation March 15 at Trenton Computer Festival 2014

Joe Budelis is scheduled to give a presentation entitled "Cloud Computing Services" at the 2014 Trenton Computer Festival.

Abstract: The world is drifting toward more and more use of services in the cloud. Many organizations are finding that moving services to the cloud is cost effective and a wise decision from the point of view of management and business continuity. Topics discussed will be:
1) How a firm's employees can enjoy the benefit of 10 Gig Internet connections,
2) How quick restoration of servers becomes easy,
3) How security updates, OS upgrades and hardware changeovers become straightforward.
Although some of the discussion, especially the first part, will be useful to an individual, the presentation is
mainly applicable to organizations for which PCs and servers are critical to their mission.

High Speed Ethernet Services becoming more widespread

One of the rapidly changing areas of Telecommunications is that T1s, DS3s, and OCxs are being replaced by Ethernet services. DIA (Dedicated Internet Access) services and other network services; e.g., MPLS circuits are now being supplied over fiber or Ethernet over Copper (EoC) or some similar Ethernet product. The reliability and bandwidth consistency of these circuits is at least as good as, if not better than, that of legacy TDM services. If a building is close enough to an appropriately equipped CO, EoC is now available from many carriers in speeds varying from 2 Mbps x 2 Mbps sometimes up to 100 Mbps x 100 Mbps. Each year the number of COs that are equipped to provide this EoC service has been increasing. And, the cost per Mbps of these services is less than that of the legacy services and has been decreasing.

Furthermore, an improvement over traditional asymmetric cable and DSL service is currently being offered by a small number of carriers. These services come in at similar price points as similar bandwidth cable services; however, they are dedicated rather than shared services and come with the reliability of symmetric EoC offerings. Run a quote to see if any of these EoC offerings have made it to you location(s).

Cloud Services Presentation on February 4 at CLC

Joe Budelis is scheduled to give a talk entitled "Cloud Storage and Backup For Personal & Small Business Use" at the Computer Learning Center at Ewing on February 4 at 2 PM. In simplest terms, the Cloud is a network of servers that can communicate and provide services over the Internet.  Many Cloud solutions exist that can be very useful to individuals and businesses, particularly by providing a way of storing and accessing data and programs on the network rather than on your computer’s hard drive.  During his presentation Budelis will review some of the better free and low cost options such as Google Drive, SkyDrive, Mozy and Dropbox.  All of these options have paid versions for those who need more space or functionality. The audience will also learn about some Cloud options and features available over and above simply providing storage.